Investigation. Tim barber joins us with the questions being asked. Tim . Tim during those two hours, this is what you would hear [busy signal] busy signal, and now county officials want to know why. This is the sight and sound that you normally want to hear after calling 911. [sirens] two hours sunday and i, montgomery countys backup 911 system failed. During the time, fire rescue responded to two emergency calls. Tonight, the county executive launched an investigation into why the backup 911 system failed and if it played a role in the deaths of two people. Was the backup system tested before you ran it . It had been tested off and on, but it had not been used. The backup 911 system had been online for three weeks while the main system got upgrades. They believe that the backup system failed when an airconditioning system failed, which caused the system to shut down before it overheated. They need more redundancy than that. Tim during the failure, they urged residents to call 311 weat
Us. D. C. s 911 system is active in running tonight but Investigation Continues at this hour after a power outage took the call center down for nearly two hours. A reporter is live outside the 911 call center in southeast d. C. Do we know how many calls were missed . That is one of the many questions tonight. Officials tell us they are not exactly sure the number of calls that were missed but at that time, usually they get about 300 to 350. This was anlling us equipment failure and tonight, the people relying on this 911 center want to know how this failure happens. D. C. 911 service is experiencing a service interruption. Alyssa is the text alert woke up to, letting her know d. C. s 911 system was not working. That was at one point 17 a. M. Director says the system went down at 11 30 last night because of equipment failure. The rent of different boxes out the power to our system. The building itself never lost power, but for 90 minutes, anyone with an emergency was not able to reach a
Region. Very heavy rain there. This is all part of a front thats swinging on through the region. Take a look at the temperatures. Ahead of the front were still in the 70s down around the norfolk area, 79 degrees. Only 35 in pittsburgh. Once again incredibly cold air. So cold we have a freeze warning in effect. Well talk much more about this and much more about the cold not just today but for seven days, at least parts of the sevenday forecast coming up in just a minute. Okay. Thanks, doug. And welcome back. Tomorrows wisconsin primary could be critical in both president ial races. There are 42 republican delegates and a total of 96 democratic delegates at stake. The winners will claim two weeks worth of momentum because the next big primary is not until april 26 in new york. Steve handelsman is tracking the prays from capitol hill. Hi, steve. Hi, doreen. Some of these candidates have already moved on to new york, but wisconsin matters when it comes to what george bush 41 famously calle
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